Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Foregone ❯ Chapter 1

 

 

Disclaimer: This story is a use of characters from DBZ.

Warning: Use of language, lemon, explicit sexual acts, mature themes.

 

 

Foregone

 

Not Good

 

 

The evening was a normal one at first. I came into the house and sat down at the comfortable kitchen table. I must have done it a hundred times before. Except this time, something was different. I noticed her. I had noticed her many times, hell, I have spent nearly all my life in this home, and many hours with her… However, it meant nothing. We were like family.

 

The conversation was at best boring. We chatted about little things, like the weather, and how she had been doing at school, and what my family was doing… very plain. Then the conversation shifted. It was not really so significant, just a curve. She always was straightforward, never coy with any of us. Therefore, what threw me was how it felt to be asked it by her….

 

“Are you dating anyone now Goten?” Bra's soft voice asked.

 

I think I blinked, a little surprised that she should ever ask such a personal question of me. I do not know why, maybe because Bra had never pried into my life, not when not everyone knew about it. I mean my Niece and best friend announced it everywhere, my mother complained aloud enough, I was a brunt of all jokes when it came to my love life. Even Vegeta got in a few jabs. However, Bra never … well I had never heard her ever talk about it, joke with the others, or ask me.

 

“No, I haven't really had to the time to get involved.' I replied as truthfully as I could. Meaning, that I saw women, but no one I would call dating, or involved. Lately my time had been filled with work. Somehow, I wanted to manage to sound sincere.

 

I could have sworn that I seen a little smile cross her lips, but I looked again and it was not there. I probably had imagined it. Needless to say, she only nodded, as if she understood my answer because then she told me something of a shock.

 

“I hardly had any time myself. I cannot believe how hard it is finishing my graduate work… Now it seems for the first time I have time… Even though I am probably busier now, I certainly had no mental energy to spare!” She laughed.

 

I smiled back, as I thought of how hard it must had been doing all that work, she was talking about, though I figured school had to be better then working at her mothers company. Then she was a Briefs, well and a Vegeta too, taxing work was what made the entire family thrive!

 

Then we were both quiet. At first, it was a comfortable silence. However, it started stretching out, and I hated it. I blurted out, “So you wanna go out for a hamburger?” I definitely needed a snack.

 

“OK, let me get my coat.” She went to leave, but then noticed my perplexed face.

 

“What?” she asked

 

“Oh, I was wondering if you, well do you wanna fly, or drive.” I could have sworn that I had only seen her fly maybe twice in all her years, though Pan, Trunks and I flew most everywhere when we were not with other people.

 

Then she smiled. A real smile, one that lit up the entire room. It was a partial dimple and bright blue eyes. It was so fucking cute I had to shake my head.

 

“Oh, sure we can fly Goten, but I still need a jacket.” Bra then ran off.

 

I sat in that chair and wondered how this was all going to end up. I usually do not think about it, I just kind of flow with everything. I suddenly wanted her to ask me more question, and talk… I wanted to see her smile like that again; I wanted to see if she could fly fast, something that had me curious, I cannot explain. But I definitely wanted to see her eat. I know that is a little weird, but I cannot remember if Bra ate like a Saiyan. I was not sure what was wrong with me, because I couldn't ever remembering wanting to know what a girl ate like. I found it all sort of unimportant. The only thing I knew was that I liked to eat. I had to equate all of this with one thing. I had never really noticed something before… That was her… I wanted to know all there was to know about Bra….

 

 

 

 

 

She was smart. There was no denying it. All that I admired in Trunks was instilled with Bra. Everything I was in awed by Bulma was in her. The best was she was a strategist. The rudimentary of battles was not for her, but the planning, the art… she had it. She had power too! Vegeta would call her a tactician. She ran her portion of Capsule Corporation in a militant way. The only hitch in her armor, so to speak was how she cared… As stringent as she was with herself at work, those that she cared about, Bra was soft.

 

Our hamburger that night was all right I guess, but the next few weeks were better.

 

Suddenly I found myself getting out of work and really wanting to go home… Just so that I could call her, up and ask her about her day!

 

She always seemed surprised that I thought of her at all!

 

I played it off that Trunks was too busy right then to bullshit with me so I thought I`d see how she was…. She never said anything, but I felt a little guilty about saying it… that was not the truth… I rushed home to call her just to hear her….

 

 

I remember calming myself one night, berating myself for spending too much time with Bra in the weeks that followed. Therefore, I purposely held off not calling…. I did not stop by the house, nor did I frequent Capsule Corps. I did this for three days.

 

Needless to say, that it was three weeks straight that I spent some time with her…everyday…

 

She called me….

 

 

“Goten, everything all right?” she asked

 

I could hear the concern in her voice. I cringed slightly knowing how concerned she might feel. She was that way.

 

“Yeah Bra, I `have just been bogged down here, and my nights have been late.” I hated lying.

 

“OH, ok I was hoping that was all”

 

I detected something more in that reply, so I pushed a little conversation out of her…

 

“Did you think that I forgot about you?” I asked jokingly… One endearing thing was her sense of humor… It rivaled Pan's and Trunks.

 

“Ha!” she laughed in the phone…

 

I smiled into the phone; I could see her face, so indignant.

 

“Well, now that you mention it, I was thinking that maybe you shacked up with some crazy banshee, and well I was wondering if I had to send Trunks or Pan to your rescue again!” She said churlishly.

 

Damn I thought. I had forgotten that. There was this one time that Bra had to send Trunks to find me shacked up! Bra had taken a call from my mother…. Kami I concocted a story about how this girls blackmailed me and made me stay with her, so my mom would not scream at me…. However, that… was years ago….

 

“Ouch Bra that hurt” I sad miffed that she remembered it, and sad that she thought it about me, I did not want her to think of me like that…

 

“Sorry, `Ten, oh darn, I … I guess I just missed you that's all” she said sullenly.

 

I was quiet a minute, and she said nothing either. The mood had suddenly taken a downhill turn, but then spiked. She missed me. I missed her. All of a sudden, she meant a whole lot more to me, and I had tortured us these past three days… but if I had not then I would not have known how much these past weeks had meant… I had to see her again, she was fun and she knew me… I did not have to hide behind a façade… It was so comfortable… But it was different, it was more, I could be myself with her, and she was she was beautiful… inside and out…

 

“Bra?”

 

“Yes Goten?”

 

“Would you like to go for some coffee?” I needed a fix.

 

“Yeah, yeah I would…when, at what time?”

 

“Met me in about 6 and half minutes, near Capsule…the CoffeeMate.”

 

“Ok, see you.”

 

“Yeah,” I said, it felt like a weight had been lifted….

 

 

 

 

Four weeks had passed since that coffee. The funny thing was that everyone in our families seemed to have forgotten us. My parents were busy, Trunks had taken time to do many other things, and Pan seemed to have gotten involved with that… Bulma was bust on a new discovery and the one person besides Bra that I saw, acted indifferent to me… Strangely enough, I had spent four dinners eating with Bra and Vegeta.

 

We mad an interesting group. Vegeta did not talk while he ate, so it was mostly Bra keeping the plates full, as Vegeta and I had silent contest of finishing I tall. I could see the amusement on Bra's face when Vegeta beat me every time…. Though the joke was, I ate more then my dad, Vegeta was and still is the Prince, and he could eat just as much… well more….

 

I remembering it was the same day… Tuesday… I was at the house with Bra and Vegeta, and we had finished our contest. We just sat at the table when Vegeta blurted out…

 

“So where are you taking my daughter tonight?” no emotion.

 

My eyes must have bugged out. Because at that moment Vegeta smirked… it was almost a smile! That was scary.

 

I sucked up, did my best by Vegeta, showed no more surprise, and followed his lead.

 

“I don't know, hey Bra where would you like to go tonight?” I asked outright in front of the Prince.

 

Bra hid her expression too, but I just knew she was a little shocked...

 

“Damn Brat, take her dancing! That is where I would take her… Bra go off and change into one of your party things and get out of here!” Vegeta growled at both of us.

 

“Uh…” I began but Vegeta said nothing else and kept sitting there… no other expression.

 

Bra scurried off…

 

“Uh... thanks” was all I could finally managed…

 

Vegeta got up at that… I thought I heard him chuckle as he left the kitchen….

 

Bra returned in record time…

 

I nearly let myself be shocked by her outfit, .I forgot how frigging hot she was, well not really but I had not seen her ready to party for a long time… She was amazing….

 

Damn this was so not good….